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“Beginnings 2”
Teachers can bring
our attention to new knowledge. Teachers, however, don’t embody this knowledge
for us. Only we can do this.
It is easy to
write about, read about, or talk about concepts such as centering, receiving,
blending, living in the moment, and living in the flow. It takes personal
effort to incorporate such knowledge and awareness into our techniques. But it takes a much greater effort to take
this knowledge out of the context of the dojo or the written word and make it
workable in all aspects of our lives.
In aikido
training, we may begin with some preconceived notions of what we want to get
out of the endeavor or what we would like to see in the final product. For
example, on a very narrow scale we may be focused on learning how to execute a
list of techniques. Our focus may be purely on the outcome of each technique –
perhaps seeing an opponent pinned or cast off in some way. When we focus on the
end we lose sight of the process by which we get to the end. In the process by which we get from the
beginning to the end there are observations to be made and lessons to be
learned. There is a flow which can eventually become intuitive, and if we
are succesful, we may be able to find a similar flow in the way we experience
our lives.
Aikido for Self
Discovery
Page 9-10
Stan Wrobel, Ph.D.
3rd Dan blackbelt.
Bagian ini, Stan
Wrobel mencoba menunjukkan bahwa bisa atau tidaknya seseorang memahami aikido
dari tekniknya bukan karena siapa senseinya, melainkan bergantung pada
bagaimana masing-masing pribadi kita berani merubah cara pandang kita terhadap
suatu teknik. Fokus perhatian kita seharusnya mulai bergeser, bukan lagi pada
dampak dari suatu teknik tertentu terhadap lawan saja, tetapi pada proses sejak
teknik dimulai. Di situlah terdapat pelajaran-pelajaran sebenarnya yang bisa
kira peroleh yang hanya bisa didapat apabila kita mulai memperhatikan dan
mengobservasi proses lebih jauh untuk kemudian, intisari itu bisa kita gunakan
dalam kehidupan kita sehari-hari.
Untuk itu –
sedikit masukan untuk para aikidoka baru – kita tidak lagi terpana hanya pada
suatu teknik karena apa yang teknik itu bisa lakukan pada lawan kita, tetapi
lebih fokus pada setiap gerakan yang kita lakukan. Alur apa yang tersirat di
dalamnya.
Selamat
berobservasi.
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